Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-26

DISPATCH from Jefferson Cltys Mo.s
saws: The case of the State ex rel Carey,
versus Joseph Andriano Ia reversed ana
the defendant is restored to all that he has
| lost by the Judgment of the Circuit Court
and the suit dismissed Andriano was de-
MED his Office by Judge Spencer. OF st.
Joseph, on the ground that the act OF Con-
gress allowing citizenship to minor children
of aliens was retroactive and not prospec-
| tive
Miss LETzxE and John Boyer went boat
| ing at La Crosse, Wis, recently with Two
German friends The latter sought to
| frigkten Miss Letzke by rocking the boat.
| The boat capsized and Miss Letzke and
| Beyer were drowned. The other tUo were
saved.
Irwas reported at San Francisco that
| the transcontinental roads would boycott
the American connections OF the Canadian
| Pacific road
THE bill raising the age of consentpassed
the Michigan Senate recently without de-
bate 1t had already passed the House,
and only needs the Governors signature to
| become law. 1t fixes the age OF consent
at fourteen years.
A PROHIBITION State convention began in
| Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
IT il said that A W. Swan, the Wyoming
cattle king, who recently failed, was made
! the victim of a gigantic confidence game
some time previously whereby he lost $780,
| 600 at one sweep.
THE distillery at Des Moines, Iowa, has
been served with a. notice that under the
ruling OF the Supreme Court 1T must close
up. About 81 900 gallons of beer in watts
have been seized at Mates brewery, atthe
same place, which will be destroyed on ad-
vice of the Attorney General
CHARLES L. MAGINxIs has BEEN appointed
Receiver of Public Moneys at Duluth,
MINI.
The grain rate cut by the Chicago & Ait
lantic road to Ohio points has been practi-
cally restored.
NEARLY an entire block, mainly occupied
by slaughter house, in South San Francis
90 was destroyed by fire the other night;
loss, Sc, 600.
FOREST fires have started again In the
Michigan peninsula.
THE recent lockout of the brick manufac-
turers of Chicago threw 5000 men out of
work.
The first business meeting of the thirty
third annual session of the Western Uni
tartan Conference was held in Chicago on
the 18th. Hon. D. L. Shorey occupied the
chair and an address of welcome was de-
livered by Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, which
was responded to by President Shorey-
Rev. j. Efinger, secretary, submitted a
Voluminous report.
THE west bound passenger train ON the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee railroad ran
into bunch of cattle twenty miles east of
Denver, Col, on the 18th, ditching the en-
CINE, mail and express cars. Of three
tramps stealing a ride one named Moore
was killed and the other two slightly in
jured.
LIGHTNING recently killed one man and
severely injured two others who were at
work on farm near Cairo, Ill.
The reported Minnesota earthquake shock
was found to have been terrific explosion
of nitro-glycerine at Spirit lake, eight miles
from Duluth. The nitro-glycerine amounted
to about four tons. Two men were thought
to have been killed.
MRS. JOHN BOYD, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
has obtained a judgment of So, 500 against
a Rockford saloonkeeper for selling whisky
to her husband, causing him to commit
murder
THE coopers of Minneapolis have organ
lied an association which agrees to pay
journeymen fifteen cents per barrel and
furnish barrels to the mills at forty cents
each.
THE strikers at the cement factory at
Akron, o., have returned to work at an ad-
vance IN wages.
GRACE LESLIE, leading lady of the Kate
Castleton troupe, was killed in railroad
accident recently at Salida, Col.
FULLY 1900 people were fighting forest
hres Oh the michigan peninsula on the 18th,
and repetition of the awful Portage fire
was feared. Fire appeared to be raging
everywhere.
The foreclosure sale of the Nickel Plate
road at Cleveland, O., on the 10Th was a
very formal affair. The road was purchased
on the first bid for SIG, O00, 900 by Frederick
o. P. Olcott, chairman of the Nickel Plate
purchasing committee, for the bondholders'
committee, which is made up of Mr.. Olcott,
William K. Vanderbilt, James A. Roosevelt
and J. s. Kennedy.